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Shortwave 4/7/13

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Shortwave bandscan (from a dorm room in Allendale, MI on a Grundig S350 with lights on and computer on, 9:50-10:10 PM EDT 4/7/13) – Station IDs from short-wave.info
3185 – WWRB, Morristown, TN
3195 – WWRB, Morristown, TN
3215 – WWCR, Nashville, TN
3330 – CHU, Ottawa, ON, Canada
4840 – WWCR, Nashville, TN
4920 – stumped here??? Religious in English, Only stations on at this time according to short-wave.info are in Ecuador, India, and China, and none of them are English
5000 – another stumper?? Sounded like Spanish
5085 – WTWW, Lebanon, TN
5830 – WTWW, Lebanon, TN
5910 – Alcaravan Radio, Puerto Lleras, Colombia (station in Spanish, and only SS on 5910 at this time)
5920 – WHRI, Cypress Creek, FL
5935 – WWCR, Nashville, TN
6000 – Radio Habana Cuba, Havana, Cuba
6020 – China Radio International, Cerrik, Albania
6030 – Radio Marti, Greenville, NC
6060 – Radio Habana Cuba, Havana, Cuba
6115 – Family Radio, Okeechobee, FL
6165 – Radio Habana Cuba, Havana, Cuba
6180 – Radio Nacional de Amazonia, Brasilia, Brazil
6405 – very weak music
6455 – more very weak music
6755 – weather station ??
6875 – Family Radio, Okeechobee, FL
7365 – Radio Marti, Greenville, NC
8660 – listenable Chinese(?) station
8735 – weak music/talk
8780 – weak Chinese(?) station
8950 – weak religious (English)
9265 – WINB, Red Lion, PA
9420 – Voice of Greece, Avlis, Greece
9535 – Radio Exterior de Espana, Noblejas, Spain
9570 – China Radio International, Cerrik, Albania
9580 – China Radio International, Havana, Cuba
9620 – Radio Exterior de Espana, Noblejas, Spain
9645 – Radio Romania International, Tiganesti, Romania
9665 – Voice of Russia, Kishinev, Moldova
9690 – China Radio International, Noblejas, Spain
9760 – Radio Farda, Lampertheim, Germany
9860 – WHRI, Cypress Creek, FL
9965 – Radio Cairo, Abu Zabaal, Egypt
10000 – WWV, Fort Collins, CO
11085 – weak Spanish
11520 – WEWN, Vandiver, AL
11680 – Radio Habana Cuba, Havana, Cuba
11760 – Radio Habana Cuba, Havana, Cuba
11780 – Radio Nacional de Amazonia, Brasilia, Brazil
11790 – BBC World Service, Woofferton, UK
11840 – Radio Habana Cuba, Havana, Cuba
11955 – Radio Romania International, Tiganesti, Romania
11995 – Radio France International, Issoudun, France
12005 – Voice of Vietnam, Woofferton, UK
 
^ Sure your "5000" Spanish isn't 5025 Radio Rebelde, Cuba?

Not sure if Venezuela is still using 5000 for its time signal YVTO, but it could be them.

cd
 
Those ones in the 8.000 khz area - they are images of 31m stations. Your radio (the S350) has problems with SW images, a LOT.

-crainbebo
 
At 3:20 PM EST, I heard a preaching-like talk on 15550 USB and a very weak music on 11660 on AM mode at the same time (perhaps from Australia?)
 
"Images" are false copies of real signals your radio is receiving. They are internally generated signals -- internally generated by your receiver, usually because of strong signals slamming the antenna and overloading the radio's RF section (that's the section that directly amplifies what's coming off the antenna).

They're also called "overload images". Some radios are more prone to them than others. They usually have something to do with the IF frequency of the radio, too. I understand just enough about this to not explain it very well....

I have a few multiband transistor SW radios that have images, especially if I connect them to a long wire antenna. The stronger SW signals will create false signals from the 31 meter SW band, which will appear below 9 mhz. If I use an antenna tuner, it usually reduces them. Mostly I just live with them and ignore them, if using those radios.

I also sometimes get images on a couple of my digital SW radios, if conditions are very good. For example, on some occasions I can get images from the 19 meter SW band on the 20 meter ham band.
 
i keep getting a stupid image of Radio Marti on 1710 khz on one radio. This a new condition for that radio too.
 
robotique said:
i keep getting a stupid image of Radio Marti on 1710 khz on one radio. This a new condition for that radio too.
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I am not so sure that this is an image! I think that there was a report of Marti using 1710, but I am not 100% on that.

I have a local on 1700, so it'd be hard to pick it apart down here near Miami.

cd
 
Decided to try the bandscan again, this time with my new Tecsun PL-390 under the same conditions as the bandscan with the Grundig S350DL.
3185 – WWRB, Morristown, TN
3215 – WWCR, Nashville, TN
3330 – CHU, Ottawa, ON, Canada
4840 – WWCR, Nashville, TN
5000 – heard clock ticking, guy talking
5025 – Radio Rebelde, Havana, Cuba
5830 – WTWW, Lebanon, TN
5890 – WWCR, Nashville, TN
5910 – Radio Japan, Issodoun, France
5920 – WHRI, Cypress Creek, FL
5935 – WWCR, Nashville, TN
6000 – Radio Habana Cuba, Havana, Cuba
6020 – China Radio International, Cerrik, Albania
6030 – Radio Marti, Greenville, NC
6060 – Radio Habana Cuba, Havana, Cuba
6070 – CFRX, Toronto, ON, Canada
6115 – Family Radio, Okeechobee, FL
6165 – Radio Habana Cuba, Havana, Cuba
6180 – Radio Nacional de Amazonia, Brasilia, Brazil
6754 - Volmet, Trenton, ON, Canada (thanks to DXInfoCentre for the info)
6875 – Family Radio, Okeechobee, FL
7305 – Vatican Radio, Greenville, NC
7315 – WHRI, Cypress Creek, FL
7365 – Radio Marti, Greenville, NC
7475 – Voice of Greece, Avlis, Greece
7490 – WBCQ, Monticello, ME
9330 – WBCQ, Monticello, ME
9490 – Radio Republica, Montsinery, French Guiana
9500 – Chinese station??? (If Chinese, it would likely be CNR1 out of Shijiazhuang, China). The only thing I know is that the station was not in English.
9525 – Radio Romania International, Tiganesti, Romania
9535 – Radio Exterior de Espana, Noblejas, Spain
9550 – Voice of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Kamalabad, Iran
9570 – China Radio International, Cerrik, Albania
9580 – China Radio International, Havana, Cuba
9620 – Radio Exterior de Espana, Noblejas, Spain
9645 – Radio Romania International, Tiganesti, Romania
9665 – Voice of Russia, Kishinev, Moldova
9700 – Radio Romania International, Tiganesti, Romania
9820 – Voice of America, Greenville, NC
9860 – WHRI, Cypress Creek, FL
9965 – Radio Cairo, Abu Zabaal, Egypt
11520 – WEWN, Vandiver, AL
11680 – Radio Habana Cuba, Havana, Cuba
11760 – Radio Habana Cuba, Havana, Cuba
11780 – Radio Nacional de Amazonia, Brasilia, Brazil
11790 – BBC World Service, Woofferton, UK
11840 – Radio Habana Cuba, Havana, Cuba
11870 – WEWN, Vandiver, AL
11955 – Radio Romania International, Tiganesti, Romania
11995 – Radio France International, Issoudun, France
12005 – Voice of Vietnam, Woofferton, UK
15000 – WWV, Fort Collins, CO
 
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